EP1184310A1 - Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Bildung einer Reihe von Produkten - Google Patents

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EP1184310A1
EP1184310A1 EP01430027A EP01430027A EP1184310A1 EP 1184310 A1 EP1184310 A1 EP 1184310A1 EP 01430027 A EP01430027 A EP 01430027A EP 01430027 A EP01430027 A EP 01430027A EP 1184310 A1 EP1184310 A1 EP 1184310A1
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Patrick Herubel
Charles Palumbo
Jean-Louis Pichon
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G47/00—Article or material-handling devices associated with conveyors; Methods employing such devices
    • B65G47/52—Devices for transferring articles or materials between conveyors i.e. discharging or feeding devices
    • B65G47/68—Devices for transferring articles or materials between conveyors i.e. discharging or feeding devices adapted to receive articles arriving in one layer from one conveyor lane and to transfer them in individual layers to more than one conveyor lane or to one broader conveyor lane, or vice versa, e.g. combining the flows of articles conveyed by more than one conveyor
    • B65G47/682—Devices for transferring articles or materials between conveyors i.e. discharging or feeding devices adapted to receive articles arriving in one layer from one conveyor lane and to transfer them in individual layers to more than one conveyor lane or to one broader conveyor lane, or vice versa, e.g. combining the flows of articles conveyed by more than one conveyor from a single conveyor lane consisting of one conveyor or several adjacent conveyors
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G47/00—Article or material-handling devices associated with conveyors; Methods employing such devices
    • B65G47/22—Devices influencing the relative position or the attitude of articles during transit by conveyors
    • B65G47/26—Devices influencing the relative position or the attitude of articles during transit by conveyors arranging the articles, e.g. varying spacing between individual articles
    • B65G47/30—Devices influencing the relative position or the attitude of articles during transit by conveyors arranging the articles, e.g. varying spacing between individual articles during transit by a series of conveyors
    • B65G47/31—Devices influencing the relative position or the attitude of articles during transit by conveyors arranging the articles, e.g. varying spacing between individual articles during transit by a series of conveyors by varying the relative speeds of the conveyors forming the series

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  • the present invention relates to a method for queuing objects and to a device allowing the implementation of this process.
  • the invention is particularly applicable to the ginning of bulk packages, such as as postal packets, to form a line of packets arranged sequentially (i.e. one behind the other).
  • These devices have the drawback of causing objects to fall during their transfer from one conveyor to another, which can cause deterioration fragile objects; in addition, these devices are generally bulky, due to the presence of the deflectors as well as the presence of return conveyors (from recycling) which transport objects separated from the flow of objects processed by the device, from downstream of it upstream; this causes loss of energy as well as additional shock to which recycled objects are subjected when they are dumped, by the return conveyor, at the entry of the device.
  • the device includes a conveyor tilted at an angle of at least 25 ° which causes objects stacked on other objects so that the objects delivered at the outlet of this conveyor extend according to a single layer.
  • An objective of the invention is to propose a system for ginning objects more simple as the device described in this last document.
  • An objective of the invention is to propose a system for queuing objects which remedies, at least in part, the drawbacks of known methods and devices.
  • the invention consists in proposing a device which has a plurality of parallel transfer conveyors which are capable, together or separately, to transfer an object from the exit of an entry conveyor to the entry an output conveyor, between which and in the extension of which the transfer conveyors extend, and which includes a camera for observing the objects on the input conveyor, as well as means for determining data contour and identification of objects from images captured by the camera, as well as means for the selective actuation of transfer conveyors in function said contour and identification data.
  • the average transport speed of the objects is maintained at a value in the range from 0.1 meter per second to 2 meters per second.
  • the method and the device according to the invention make it possible to avoid falling and recycling of objects.
  • the system according to the invention advantageously replaces the system described in US patent 4,634,328; indeed in the device according to the invention, it is important little that an object to be sorted has a heterogeneous density spatial distribution - as is the case with many packaged objects - or not: the transport of an object heterogeneous by several adjacent bands of a multi-band conveyor, on which the object rests, makes it possible to ensure a transfer of the object according to a movement of rectilinear translation along the longitudinal axis of the multi-band conveyor; such movement is generally not likely to cause support of the object transferred to the adjacent objects of the group, which support would likely cause a rotation (and / or a transverse translation) of the object (or objects) in support.
  • the pusher robot of the patent raised, in addition to its structural complexity and control, naturally faces difficulties in controlling the trajectory of an object that it pushes: it is not possible to deduce from the image of an object heterogeneous, neither the position of its center of gravity, nor the characteristics (modulus and direction) of the resultant of the friction forces which oppose its sliding on the organ (conveyor belt) which supports the object; therefore the effort of pushing of the robot tends to cause a rotation and / or a tilting of the object which is therefore likely to interfere (strike) the fingers inserted between the two conveyors, in the device described in US Patent 4,634,328; further the trajectory of the object pushed by the robot is modified by the reaction forces resulting from the object being pushed onto the fingers and / or other objects which surround.
  • the use of the multi-band conveyor facilitates the transfer of objects deformable (such as newspapers) and the transfer of objects likely to roll, in particular objects of approximately cylindrical or spherical shape, in their ensuring a determined and controlled transfer trajectory, according to a translation longitudinal, without rotation of the object, unlike the pusher robot.
  • Figure 1 illustrates in simplified perspective view the main components mechanical transfer of a device according to the invention.
  • Figure 2 illustrates in schematic side view the main components of a device according to the invention and their interconnection.
  • Figure 3 illustrates in sectional view in a transverse vertical plane, a multi-band conveyor used to longitudinally shift objects presented front at the outlet of the inlet conveyor of a device according to the invention.
  • FIG. 4 illustrates on an enlarged scale the detail marked IV of FIG. 3.
  • FIG. 5 schematically illustrates in side view a second mode of realization of a multi-band conveyor according to the invention.
  • Figure 6 illustrates in partial schematic top view the conveyor of the figure 5.
  • the device comprises, in addition to static supports and guides such as those referenced 26 and 27 in Figure 3, an electronic unit 24 for the selective control of actuators 25a to 25j respectively associated with each of the bands 11a to 11j of the multi-band conveyor 4; to do this, the unit 24 is connected to the actuators 25a-25j, but also to a camera 23 delivering to unit 24 images, in a plane 13 vertical transverse, objects (14 to 17 figure 1) - or their drop shadow - which present at the outlet of the conveyor 3.
  • the unit 24 is provided (or associated with) means (s) for determining the position, along a transverse axis such as 12, and the width of each of the objects 14 to 17; these means include known image processing algorithms, in in particular a contour extraction algorithm, and an isolation and / or shape recognition of objects filmed by the camera.
  • the strips 11a to 11j being driven by a motor common - via respective clutches as described below - their 28 travel speeds are equal; in the variant illustrated in Figures 5-6, the belts can be moved at 28 different speeds, a motor 34 for driving (such as 34i, 34j) being respectively associated with each of the bands (such as 11i, 11j), and operated under the control of unit 24 in Figure 2.
  • a motor 34 for driving such as 34i, 34j
  • the bands 11a-11j of the multi-band conveyor are separated transversely by a space whose width 40 is such that its relation to the width 41 of the strips is in a range from 0.07 to 0.3.
  • the ratio of the width 41 of the strips 11a-11j to the length of their upper strand is in a range from 5 to 25.
  • the device comprises a fixed horizontal sheet 50, on the upper face of which the upper strands of the bands can slide of the multi-band conveyor.
  • a motor 51 common to the ten bands is fixed to a support not shown and rotates, via a reduction gear 55, along the transverse axis 52 horizontal, a splined shaft 53 extending along the axis 52 and rotatably mounted in a end bearing 54.
  • the splined shaft carries ten wheels 56 mounted head to tail two by two along the tree ; each wheel 56 comprises a friction disc 58, of axis 52, capable of "stick” to a grip surface fitted to a drive wheel 57a ... 57j respective bands 11a ...

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